Deep Forest Canopy
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Pratincoles and Coursers

Black-winged Pratincole

Glareola nordmanni

The black-winged pratincole is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. The genus name is a diminutive of Latin glarea, "gravel", referring to a typical nesting habitat for pratincoles. The species name commemorates the Finnish-born zoologist and explorer Alexander von Nordmann.

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